Improvement in india-rubber heels of boots and shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PIERRE INQISSET, 0l PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNRIO; l-ITMSETIFAD RNARD() V ANIOGNIT. 0F NEW Y0Rli,'. Y.

To 7l whom it 71m 1/ cmmfru: V Be it known that LPIERRE IHOIVSSET, o'f thei city of Paris, inthe Empire of France, have' ,invented a new" aud useful Improvement in Roots and Shoes; and l do hereby declarethat the following is a fnlland exact description of the same, reference licing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of /lei'er- .enne .marked thereon.

'Figure I represents-a section of a shoe. 'lhe remaining' figures represent 'details referred to in the description.

Similar letters represent. 'si mi lar parts.

,The nature of my invention consists in the application and combination, with an indiarnbher heel, of meml points to prevent the wearing away of said'heel.

In the aecompanying drawings, A represents the s ole of a boot having the heel a and shank b oi` instep Kmade of india-rubber,with the forward part, d, of the sole madeof leather; and attached 'to the shank hy. any suitable means.

vB represents part-ot the upper-leather or` Vamps, which is turned in between the outer and inner soles, and Q represents the inner Sole of tlu-ybo'o't` or"shoe. .'lo attach this' inner sole, C, and theupper-leather P tothe indiarnhber shank and heel ot4 the outer sole, A,V

I use screws s," provided with heads and screwed in from the inside or outside of the shoe, or I use screw-wire .'L', screwed in either from the'ontside or from the inside, or in some vveases I use both these description of screws combined. By the u'sc eithese screws for at taehil'ig india-rnhhersoles the upper-leather v'livlPuovI-:iuENT In INDIA-.RUBBER HEgLs oF o'ojTs AND sHoEs.

. 1S iu coinpresedmore tightly hei-weon the .in-

ner solo, C, and the outer indiarnhhe' 'sole A, than can be. done by anyother method of fastening india-rubber soles te boots or shoes and prevents the entering ol any moisture into thesame. 4

Toprevent the wearing away of 'the indiurnbber heel a., I incorporate vinto the same one or two frames, gm, (see Fig. 11,) with metal pointe o, attached in such a manner that the endsof said points o, which `may be round,

Square, or any othersl ape, `come Ahrdx with 1 the hottomof the heel. 'lhisframe l1-frames 1nay`he arranged in. Sneh a manner that the' metal points o will be only on that sideof ih'c heel .mostsuhjcet to wear, or goal] around the' hechas maybe desired.

Iii the after end of the heele., l f url-hor incor orare amet-al bov 'or frame, D, provided D This box.'

with project-ingribs or pieces?. Y receives the spur and ieprevented from comng'loose-by i1's`1-i r orln'ojections tli'eframe or framcslmwit-h'metal points o, areincorporated' into theindia-rnbber heel u duri ng the' processofinakingthe same.' What I claim as my invention, 'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- Making'thc heel-piece' a-of an india-rubber sole with a frame or' f ra mes, m, provided with poi u ts o, incorporated therein', in the manner and for 'the purpose substantially as et forth. VPIERRE BOISSET.

Witueses:

' HENRY E. Romina, Jomv T. D iivlnxion 

